Re: OT Building a Linux / Debian based dev team

2005-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Creation of a new distro based on key specific features of various distros available today Alternatively you might consider to save time and join the Custom Debian Distribution effort: http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ 2) Creation of new Li

Re: menu files in /usr/lib?

2005-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, martin f krafft wrote: I was unable to find an answer online, so please allow me to ask here: why are Debian menu files in /usr/lib? They are clear-text and thus clearly architecture-independent. Menu does allow to provide not only these text files but also executable scripts o

Re: Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework

2005-04-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10273 March 1977, Brian Nelson wrote: >> [Brian Nelson] >> > * Package name: qt-x11-opensource >> > Version : 4.0 beta 2 >> > Upstream Author : Trolltech AS >> Is there some reason for the "-opensource" in the name? > It's the upstream name. For whatever reason, Trolltech has

Re: Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework

2005-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:36:00PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:10:44PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Brian Nelson] > > > * Package name: qt-x11-opensource > > > Version : 4.0 beta 2 > > > Upstream Author : Trolltech AS > > Is there some reason for

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-27 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:55 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Pascal Hakim] > > The reason it hasn't been done so far is not related to any technical > > problem. There seems to be just as many people who do not want the > > mboxes to be available as people who do. > > Do these same people object t

Re: Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:10:44PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Brian Nelson] > > * Package name: qt-x11-opensource > > Version : 4.0 beta 2 > > Upstream Author : Trolltech AS > > Is there some reason for the "-opensource" in the name? It's the upstream name. For whateve

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Pascal Hakim] > The reason it hasn't been done so far is not related to any technical > problem. There seems to be just as many people who do not want the > mboxes to be available as people who do. Do these same people object to web archives of the lists? I'm curious, because I don't really see

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-27 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:20 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It would be really handy to have archives of the debian mailing lists > > available as mbox archives. > > The correct solution, until someone gets around to exporting the > mboxes, is to talk/grumble/whine about want

Re: Bug#304450: ITP: Intent to Package grabc

2005-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sonia Hamilton] > Package: wnpp > Followup-For: Bug #304450 > Owner: Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I intend to package grabc. Please retitle the bug as described in http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It would be really handy to have archives of the debian mailing lists > available as mbox archives. The correct solution, until someone gets around to exporting the mboxes, is to talk/grumble/whine about wanting the archive for some specific month and list, where developers ca

Re: Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework

2005-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brian Nelson] > * Package name: qt-x11-opensource > Version : 4.0 beta 2 > Upstream Author : Trolltech AS Is there some reason for the "-opensource" in the name? That's a pretty redundant designation for something in Debian main, don't you think? I'd probably go with "qt4" or "

Bug#304450: ITP: Intent to Package grabc

2005-04-27 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #304450 Owner: Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I intend to package grabc. Homepage: http://muquit.com/muquit/software/grabc/grabc.html License: GPL -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')

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Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-27 Thread alexeijh
Hi, It would be really handy to have archives of the debian mailing lists available as mbox archives. Here are some relevant links: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161440 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/02/msg02978.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/02/msg029

Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: qt-x11-opensource Version : 4.0 beta 2 Upstream Author : Trolltech AS * URL or Web page : http://www.trolltech.com * License : Dual GPL/QPL Description : Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework Qt is a cross-plat

Re: mplayer 1.0pre7

2005-04-27 Thread Jeff Carr
David Nusinow wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:51:04PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10270 March 1977, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The list used to be >200 packages long. It is now ~20 packages long. It was somewhere around 600. Showoff :-) (Thank you and the other ftpmasters for blasting throu

Re: menu files in /usr/lib?

2005-04-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:41:09PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi developers, > > I was unable to find an answer online, so please allow me to ask > here: why are Debian menu files in /usr/lib? They are clear-text and > thus clearly architecture-independent. Hello Martin, Debian has a nice sy

Re: {Arch,OCaml,Python,Mono} Packages for Adoption

2005-04-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:10:17 +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> tla-tools >> >> I can take this one, if noone else wants it. Sorry for the delay. The new version is in incoming at the moment, and the public archives are visib

OT Building a Linux / Debian based dev team

2005-04-27 Thread kevin . kempter
All; First let me apologize if this is the wrong thread to post this request. If I'm out of line let me know (preferrably without flaming me) I've been in talks with a group of folks interested in starting a new Linux/Debian based company. This new company to be successful will need the abilit

OT: macs?

2005-04-27 Thread Jens Peter Secher
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "a mac is like a prostitute. sure they look good, > but your wallet will feel a lot lighter after getting one." Shouldn't that be "Windows is like a prostitute. Sure it's got a nice make up, but you have all kinds of vira after spending some t

menu files in /usr/lib?

2005-04-27 Thread martin f krafft
Hi developers, I was unable to find an answer online, so please allow me to ask here: why are Debian menu files in /usr/lib? They are clear-text and thus clearly architecture-independent. The only explanation I found is that maybe different architectures need different commands to be executed, in

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Re: More DDTP problems

2005-04-27 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello folks, Like I proposed, I converted all CVS repository to Subversion[1]. 1. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/ddtp/, svn://svn.debian.org/svn/ddtp/ svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/ddtp/ Current layout of the repository is: - branches/ . a/ included on original source. We need to decide wh

Re: {Arch,OCaml,Python,Mono} Packages for Adoption

2005-04-27 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:46:37AM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > tla-tools > > > I can take this one, if noone else wants it. Manoj has also expressed interest; could you coordinate with him? -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: {Arch,OCaml,Python,Mono} Packages for Adoption

2005-04-27 Thread Miles Bader
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> tla-tools > > I can take this one, if noone else wants it. If you do, could you update the debian package to the latest upstream version? Thanks, -Miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Wa

Re: {Arch,OCaml,Python,Mono} Packages for Adoption

2005-04-27 Thread Andreas Rottmann
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tla-tools > I can take this one, if noone else wants it. Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://yi.org/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint

Re: definition of "use"

2005-04-27 Thread James William Pye
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 16:51 -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > That's fine, but as you probably do realize, the word "use" is too > wide and too unspecific. Having a license that doesn't state > specifically what rights are or aren't granted is due to bring > misunderstandings. I agree, in part.

Re: mplayer 1.0pre7

2005-04-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 27 avril 2005 à 10:17 +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson a écrit : > (if I recall, A52 decoding is > statically linked into xine, so it shouldn't be a problem to have > mplayer statically link and A52 decoder too). Xine isn't linked to the A52 decoder, see #301638. -- .''`. Josselin

Re: Key Signing in Vancouver, BC

2005-04-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 26 avril 2005 à 16:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Hey! Shaun Jackman generously offered to meet in New Westminister over > lunch to exchange gpg signatures > > Meeting other debian/linux/open source folks would be totally awesome! Are you also going to hold a secret meeting to